New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will embark on a yatra covering a 6,200-km from Manipur to Mumbai across the northeastern and western parts of the country.
Gandhi’s 'Bharat Nyay Yatra' is his major push to attract voters in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls after his party lost ground in three assembly polls weeks ago.
The yatra, which will conclude on March 20 ahead of the general polls, is touted as the East-West phase of his north-south Bharat Jodo Yatra last year.
The cross-country march that he set off earlier last year from Kanyakumari helped the party regain its lost vigiour interior villages in South India.
The BJP, however, reacted to yatra saying the people had rejected the idea of Bharat Jodo Yatra.
The new ‘yatra’, to be flagged off by Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge in Imphal, will cover 14 states and 85 districts.
The states he will traverse during the Nyay Yatra include Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
The Nyay Yatra involving bus rides and foot marches, is a campaign for securing economic, social and political justice for the people of the country, the Congress claimed.
The Congress said that the party chose Manipur to begin the journey as part of healing the wounds.
However, the BJP said the Congress cannot fool people by coining new slogans.
‘The people of India had clearly rejected the idea of Bharat Jodo Yatra because Rahul Gandhi and the Congress cannot have duplicity in these approaches. They think the people of India can be fooled by coining some slogans,’ BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli was quoted as saying.